Heavy Is The Head

metacritic

fantano

Stormzy realizes his pop rap ambitions on Heavy Is the Head.

exclaim

A solid album but also not a surprising one. To boot, the main thing that grounds this album with a sense of time and place is the political side of it.

pitchfork

As he ascends from grime rapper to generational spokesperson, the charismatic UK star tries to figure out where to go next.

nme

a broad-reaching, genre-buckling romp

thelineofbestfit

Stormzy apologises to Maya Jama and addresses the state of the nation on new album